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Caption: Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:37
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: D.R. Tucker
Dr. Doug Craig, great blogger at Climate of Change and his Free Therapy blog on ANewscafe, co-hosts with us again. We discuss Global Warming denie...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:09
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From: Anna Hamilton
Series: Watershed
Caption: Amendment 1 campaign materials at Florida's Water and Land Legacy, Credit: Daniel Ward
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:42
Caption: Helen Caldicott
Unspun talks about Nuclear Insanity with Dr. Helen Caldicott . Helen Caldicott is a Harvard Pediatrician, scholar, educator, author of several boo...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:29
Caption: Michael Mann
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
Caption: Anne Petermann
Unspun sits down with Anne Petermann, Ex. Dir. of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Long time forest protection and indigenous rights activist. ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:52
Caption: LaurenRegan
Mauro Oliviera co-hosts on Unspun, and we talk with Lauren Regan, Exec. Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. Lauren Regan is a leading a...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:47
Caption: Searsville Dam, Credit: Wikimedia commons user Gazebo
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
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In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
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A group of citizens continues to work to delay a measure adopted by the Bloomington City Council to thin out the deer population at Griffy Lake – t...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
Caption: The Bay Area Bike Share station in front of San Francisco City Hall, Credit: Isabel Angell
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
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If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: Mike Parker reviewing his energy bill, Credit: Laura Flynn
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:39
Caption: Pennsylvania farmer sees fracking's effects on farms., Credit: Credit Under CC license from Flickr user Public Herald
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” could be a revenue bonanza for California. The nation’s largest reserve of deep-rock oil is in ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:33
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In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present. Second half: excerpts from...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 57:19
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
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In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:57
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Marty Whiteman found himself in a struggle with Chesapeake Energy, which leased the gas under his farm. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: For Byron Encalade, oysters and culture are inseparable., Credit: Barry Yeoman
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...

Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Darla Rooks looks out over the oiled marshland of Bay Jimmy. , Credit: Barry Yeoman
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
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The Youth News Initiative creates a platform for young women of color to give their unique perspective on issues they face in their communities.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:50